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Politics : Evolution
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To: Greg or e who wrote (13511)2/8/2011 3:36:48 AM
From: Jacques Chitte1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
>A thing is what it is, regardless of the name used for it.<

Thousands of postmodern intellectuals would strenuously disagree. You know the ones I mean - the hardcore deconstructionists who see even nature as text.

While I scoff at the postmoderns, I am also not ready to accept the above statement as absolute. There is real power to how we name things. It affects our discourse about them, and as a result it feeds into the moral consensus. The only out is to give morality an extrahuman fulcrum. You do, but I don't. Thus to me ... names have real but not limitless power.
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